Hey everyone
So we had an issue tonight, and my gut says it was wrong, but i would like to hear some other opinons...the issue....
The party entered a wine cellar that contained a wererat (and unknown to the group it's still human child.)
The paladin sensed evil and yes the wererat was lawful evil, but the wererat asked the group to leave its den multiple times as the party moved up to it.
The paladin moved up to the wererat and started attacking.
After the first round, the wererat asked the party to leave again and the paladin attacked a final time and killed the wererat.
To me this in itself is an evil act on the paladins part. The wererat did not attack even once, it asked multiple times to be left alone (knowing its child was there) and the paladin wailed away anyway.
What are your thoughts? Is this what a paladin (or even just a LG pc) character embodies?
Slaughter of a creature that will not defend itself?
In my opinioon there was little difference between the paladin slughtering the wererat or a CE npc slughtering a good character.
No difference?